Melina Petropoulou

Not Even a Proper Suicide Melina Petropoulou

A collection of thirteen sharply crafted stories that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy to comedy. Quirky stories that dig into child-parent relationships, unsuccessful love affairs and failed marriages. A middle-aged man is trying to get rid of his wife instead of divorcing her, a cyber crime committed by a professor obsessed with his failed relationship with a student, a paradoxical monologue of a woman trapped in an unfulfilled affair, a man never giving up despite his misfortune, a single mother incompatible within her status quo and a woman feeling lost after her husband's abandonment. People who try to cope with loneliness, desire, age, love and fragile family dynamics on a tightrope between life's contradictions and their deliberate endings. Ordinary people, in everyday life situations, to whom many of us can easily relate.